Garment-hanger



(No Model.)

J. PUEROHTINGER.

GARMENT HANGER.-

No, 599,777. Patented Mar. 1,1898.

I UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN FUEROHTINGER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENN SYLVANIA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 599,777, dated March 1, 1898.

' Application filed July 2, 1897- Serial No. 643,265. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN FUERCHTINGER, a citizen of the United States, residing at Philadelphia, in the county of Philadelphia and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Hangers for Oloaks and other Garments, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to a new and useful improvement in hangers for cloaks and other garments, and has for its object to provide a simple, cheap, and effective device which may be permanently attached to a garment and utilized for the suspension of said garment from a suitable nail or hook, and yet when not in use may be so folded as to be out of sight and out of the way. 1

- stand how to makeand use the same, the construction and operation will now be described in detail, referring to the accompanying drawings, forming apart of this specification, in which Figure 1 represents my improvement as applied to a cloak or coat, the lining at this point'being omitted, the hooks being shown.

in active position for suspending the cloak, and the recesses for the reception of these hooks when in their inactive position being shown; Fig. 2, a View of the hanger when detached before application to a coat, the hooks being in their folded position; and Fig. 3, a section at the line 00 0c of Fig. 2.

In carrying out my invention as here embodied I provide a plate A, which is preferably made of thin sheet metal, and within this plate are formed the recesses B by the well-known process of drop-pressing.

Two hooks O are pivoted at D to the plate and are of a shape which corresponds to the depressions or recesses in the plate, so that when said hooks are folded into their inactive position they. will lie within these recesses clearly shown in Fig. 3. The upper ends of the hooks are so shaped that when they are in their active position they overlap each other, as indicated in Fig. 1, thereby forming a loop E for engagement with a nail or other suitable device for the suspension of the coat.

Holes F are formed in the plate, by means of which it may be stitched or otherwise secured to the coat, as indicated at G; and in practice I prefer that this plate should be secured at a point upon the coat or cloak which will permit the greater portion, if not all, thereof to be covered by the lining of the coat, a sufficient portion of said lining being left ilnstitched for the inward folding of the hooks.

From this description it is obvious that when it is desired to suspend a coat from a nail or the like the hooks may be withdrawn from the recesses in the plate and brought to the position shown in Fig. 1, and when thereafter these hooks are not needed they may be again folded within the pocket formed by the lining, so as to lie within the recesses adapted therefor, thus being entirely out of the way and in no. way interfering with the use of the coat.

While I have shown 'my improvement as being adapted for selcurement to a garment by means of stitching, it is obvious that it may be stapled, eyeletted, or otherwise secured to the garment, this forming no essential part of my invention.

One of the principal advantages of my improvement is that a hanger made in accordance therewith is exceedingly simple in construction and cheap of manufacture, since the several parts thereof may be made by automatic machinery, thereby costing but little more than the cost of the material from which it is made.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and useful is Ahanger consisting of a plate and two arms having their ends curved up to form hooks, all of the parts being formed of sheet metal said arms being pivoted at their ends to a common pivot 011 the plate, said plate havin g lon gitudinally-disposed recesses of a shape conforming to the contour of the arms, the fixed my signature in the presence of two subhooked ends of said arms being adapted to scribing Witnesses. overla and form a 100 when the arms are i T V bent 11 the arms being adapted to lie in the JOHL FUERCIITINGER' 5 recess flush with the inner face of the plate \Vitnesses:

when out of use, substantially as set forth. F. MATTNER,

In testimony whereof I have hereunto af- ALLISON XV. MCCURDY. 

